AppD-StatsD-Backend

StatsD Backend to push metrics to AppDynamics

For easy of testing a Dockerfile is incuded that builds a container with StatsD, AppDynamics StatsD Backend, the AppDynamics Machine Agent and a load generator. Alterantivelty the AppDynamics StatsD Backend can be installed into an existing StatsD deployment.

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/APPDRYDER/AppD-StatsD-Backend.git

Clone statsd

git clone https://github.com/statsd/statsd.git

Download AppDynamics Machine Agent

Download machineagent-bundle-64bit-linux-4.5.18.2430.zip in the directory Agents

From https://download.appdynamics.com/

Configure AppDynamics Controller Environment Variables

Edit envvars.controller1.sh to align to an AppDynamcis Controller and Account

Build the container

. envvars.sh

./docker-ctl.sh build

Run the container

./docker-ctl run

This will start the Machine Agent, the StatsD daemon with the AppDynamics Backend, and the sample metrics load generator test1.py

Sample metrics will be pushed to statsd every second using the metric generator test1.py. The AppDynamics Backend will push the metrics to the Machine Agent

Bash into the container

./docker-ctl bash

Review logs

tail -f logs/statsd.log

Validate metrics in AppDynamics Contoller

Find the server appdstatsd1_dock in the Servers view to make sure the machine agent is working. In the Metics Browser look for metrics under: "Application Infrastructure Perforamnce | Root | Individual Nodes | appdstatsd1_doc"

Stop the container

exit

./docker-ctl stop